Firesheep and Blacksheep

[Cienja]

My home network is secure. I installed Blacksheep for kicks - it flagged someone using Firesheep on my network. It was on zzz.zzz.z.103. I fire up my Linksys router page to see what's on 103 and nothing is on 103. Then, the alert went away.

If I am alerted on a secure network, what does that mean?

What can I do to boot the ip being "sniffed" (in this case 103)?

Thanks.

 

[seepy83]

I haven't done any testing with Firesheep and/or Blacksheep, but I have read up on them and im familiar with how they work. A couple of thoughts come to mind based on what you have described...

1st thought - I would question the security of your home network. Can you clarify how your network is secured (i.e. what type of encryption you are using)?

2nd thought - You have experienced a bug.

 

[Cienja]

I haven't done any testing with Firesheep and/or Blacksheep, but I have read up on them and im familiar with how they work. A couple of thoughts come to mind based on what you have described...

1st thought - I would question the security of your home network. Can you clarify how your network is secured (i.e. what type of encryption you are using)?

2nd thought - You have experienced a bug.

Home network is WPA2 the key is around 40 characters long...I think I'm locked down pretty good...?

 

[Gamingphreek]

Home network is WPA2 the key is around 40 characters long...I think I'm locked down pretty good...?

40. Characters. Long.

Why in the world would you make your personal key that long?? A password of proper entropy that is ~9 characters long is nearly impossible to break - which leads me to the question - does the password have proper entropy?

I would say this is a bug. If you want though, you can check the logs of your router and see if DHCP was giving an IP lease at any recent time.

-Kevin